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Host City: München, West Germany
Venue(s): Wrestling-Judo Hall, Exhibition Lands (Hall 14), München
Date Started: September 5, 1972
Date Finished: September 10, 1972
Format: Scoring by negative points, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler.
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The last two World Champions were Bulgarian [Georgi Markov] (1971) and Japanâs [Hideo Fujimoto] (1970), and they were present in München, along with the man who would win the 1973-74 Worlds, Polandâs [Kazimierz LipieÅ]. After five rounds, five wrestlers remained â the above three, East German [Heinz-Helmut Wehling], and Soviet Georgian [Jemal Megrelishvili]. In round six Markov had a bye which brought him the gold medal when the other four were eliminated on bad points. LipieÅ defeated Fujimoto and Wehling defeated Megrelishvili, but they were both decisions, and the single bad points put them over the 6 point limit. Wehling won the silver based on his throw of LipieÅ in round five, but in addition to his two World titles, LipieÅ would win the gold in this event in 1976. Wehling would win a bronze medal in Montréal, but as a lightweight.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | RE | BP | |
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1 | Georgi Markov | 26 | Bulgaria | BUL | Gold | |||
2 | Heinz-Helmut Wehling | 21 | East Germany | GDR | Silver | |||
3 | Kazimierz LipieÅ | 23 | Poland | POL | Bronze | |||
4 | Hideo Fujimoto | 28 | Japan | JPN | ||||
5 | Jemal Megrelishvili | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | ||||
6 | Ion PÄun | 21 | Romania | ROU | ||||
7T | Martti Laakso | 28 | Finland | FIN | ||||
7T | Stelios Mygiakis | 20 | Greece | GRE | ||||
AC | Slavko KoletiÄ | 22 | Yugoslavia | YUG | Eliminated r4/6 | 6,5 | ||
AC | László Réczi | 25 | Hungary | HUN | Eliminated r3/6 | 7,0 | ||
AC | Harry Van Landeghem | 23 | Belgium | BEL | Eliminated r3/6 | 11,5 | ||
AC | Jakob Tanner | 25 | Switzerland | SUI | Eliminated r2/6 | 7,0 | ||
AC | Metin Alakoç | 30 | Turkey | TUR | Eliminated r2/6 | 7,0 | ||
AC | Jim Hazewinkel | 27 | United States | USA | Eliminated r2/6 | 7,0 | ||
AC | Théodule Toulotte | 21 | France | FRA | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 | ||
AC | Juan de Hernández | 24 | Guatemala | GUA | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 | ||
AC | Eliseo Salugta | 31 | Philippines | PHI | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 | ||
AC | Carlos Hurtado | 20 | Peru | PER | Eliminated r2/6 | 8,0 | ||
AC | Mohammad Ebrahimi | 34 | Afghanistan | AFG | Withdrew r2/6 | 4,0 |